beerocracyn.
/bɪəˈrɒkrəsi/ A ludicrous or polemical name for: The brewing and beer-selling interest.
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1881 World 19 Jan. 10/2 The startling mixture of peerage and beerocrary..was absent this time.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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n.1881- to have one's ears flapping
- to have one's ears on
- to have one's ears to the ground
- to have one's eye after
- to have one's eye in
- to have one's eye on
- to have one's eye on the ball
- to have one's eye on the prize
- to have one's eye one's merchant
- to have one's eye to the prize
- to have one's eye upon
- to have one's eye well in
- to have one's eyeball on
- to have one's eyes in
- to have one's eyes on the prize
- to have one's eyes well in
- to have one's eyeteeth
- to have one's eyeteeth about one
- to have one's face made of a fiddle
- to have one's fair share
- to have one's feet loose
- to have one's feet on the ground
- to have one's fere
- to have one's finger on the pulse
- to have one's fingers burnt